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Anything by Fred Harrison -

Jock — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:21:06 +0000

Anything by Fred Harrison - Most recently "Ricardo's Law: House prices and the great tax claw back scam ", "Boom, Bust: House prices, banking and the depression of 2010 " (looking quite prescient for a book published in 2005), but you can download the entire volume of "Wheels of Fortune: Self-funding infrastructure and the free market case for a Land Tax " published by the IEA. And, whilst I've only just ordered what the Amazon UK site said was the last copy in stock, a new book by an Oxford ALTER executive member, Brian Hodgkinson, entitled "A New Model of the Economy" which I imagine will be more on the philosophical and economic arguments for "free land" in principle and LVT as a way of getting there.

Yes, it was extremely difficult to name ten blogs. Once I got to the idea that I was chosing a sort of set of representative blogs of the sort of things I most like reading it was a bit easier..:)

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James Schneider — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:54:29 +0000

Many thanks for the vote Jock. You're a braver man than I. I just can't whittle down all the blogs I read into a top ten. I know Chris Dillow would be number one but past that its just too tough.

P.S. do you know of any good articles, pamphlets, books, pdfs etc on citizens income and LVT. I've read the sites you've linked to but I was wondering what else was around. Thanks, James.

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Jock — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:55:22 +0000

Right, if anyone actually cares, I'm probably going to upset a few people with this, but please, don't take any of this personally; to whittle down the 300 or so political blogs I try to "always read" down to just ten was nigh on impossible. To then put them into some kind of order was pretty well beyond me. In the end I kind of chose blogs that sort of represented the various types of blogs I read - you know, ones with think pieces, ones that are group blog type sites, ones that comment frequently, often briefly and incisively on current news, libertarian, Lib Dem and Labour ones say (sorry Tories - the only one for me that would have come close would also have come under the libertarian "category" anyway).

So really I hope that enough people have voted by tonight other than me to dilute my contribution enough to be as meaningless as it appears to me in terms of actually ranking the blogs I "always read"...

1. The Devil's Kitchen
2. Stumbling and Mumbling
3. Cicero's Songs
4. Schneider Home
5. UK Libertarian Party
6. Don Paskini
7. Gladstone Bag
8. Cobden's Comments
9. Liberty Alone
10. People's Republic of Mortimer

As I say - no taking it personally. I should probably have kept my gob shut!

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